prevail
pri vayl
- v be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- v be valid, applicable, or true
- v continue to exist
- v prove superior
The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight - v use persuasion successfully
He prevailed upon her to visit his parents
- The caucus could not prevail over the recalcitrant legislators therefore the the motion was defeated convincingly.
- Fatefully, such amity did not prevail at a laboratory over at King's College, London, where a woman named Rosalind Franklin was creating the world's best X-ray diffraction pictures .
- Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail over disunity, integration over disintegration.